tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 09 14:33:13 1998
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Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)
- From: Minots <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Decimal numbers on the BoP poster (KBP)
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 16:34:30 -0600
ghItlh ter'eS
>I like this last idea. It's tempting to see /qam/ in these as meaning
>something like 'step'. Maybe the /qelI'qam/ was the distance between
>forts or marker posts (?/qelI'/ in some dialect of /no' Hol/). So,
>/loghqam/ would be a 'space step', the distance between two celestial
>objects of importance to the Klingons.
I'd like to point out the etymology of "mile": The Roman word was "milia
pasuum," meaning "thousand paces."
Dubejbej loDnI''a'
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